BIM 360 Cost Management – May 2025

Note: Images are of Cost Management in Autodesk Build. However, the functionality is the same within BIM 360 Cost Management.

Budget Tool

Budget Snapshot Enhancement – Support for the schedule setting of relative monthly, for example, the 2nd Tuesday of each month. To learn more, see Schedule Budget Snapshots.

Cost Tool

Contract SOV/BOQ Enhancement – A new setting allows members to directly assign the same budget line item to multiple Schedule of Values (SOV) entries. This is especially useful for teams that use Bill of Quantities layouts.

• When turned on, the new Edit button in the SOV section of the contract flyout is visible.

• Once clicked, the new window to add and import subitems opens. You can see the various uses of the new Edit window throughout the Work with Contracts article.

• Collaborator response page view with subitems.

Payment Application Enhancements – The following updates have been made to payment applications:

• A new toggle to enable or disable retention release, along with new variables to support retention release. This helps us understand if retention is intended to be released in a payment application to facilitate the correct calculation and for an upcoming compliance enhancement. For more details, see Retention Release.
• Items with zero work completed are now filtered out from the aggregated costs report in budget payment applications.

Change Order Tool

Supplier Change Order Connection to Internal Budget Transfers and Creation of Those – Members now can autogenerate an internal budget transfer directly from the change order creation process, linking the two to better support workflows where SCOs are funded by internal budget transfers. Members can:

• Generate a transfer from an SCO – to learn more, see Create a Budget Transfer from SCO
• Generate a transfer from a PCO – to learn more, see Create an Internal Budget Transfer from PCO
• Connect an existing transfer to an existing SCO

Tax Enhancement for PCO, RFQ, and COR – Following the release of ‘Inclusive Tax’, it can now be applied to all change order stages through the flyout if necessary.

Settings

Project Setup Enhancement – When creating projects, we will use the project process setting to understand your role in the project. Then, automatically populate the account owner company field in the Company Setup section of Settings in the relevant field. See Company Setup to learn more.

General Approval Workflow Enhancement – New Add Step and Remove Step buttons have been added to make it easier to manage extra steps in existing workflows.

Budget Transfer Approval Workflow Enhancement – Extra option for defining workflow conditions.